Mercutio is accusing Benvolio of always looking for a fight. Based on what we know about Benvolio (think of Act 1 Scene 1), this isn’t accurate to Benvolio’s personality. So, why do you think Mercutio is saying it?

Because although everyone thinks that Benvolio is calm and pacifist, Mercutio knows that this is a lie and that Benvolio is a quarrelsome and heated person.

Explanation:

Because Benvolio has a reputation for being calm and pacifist, but he has already got into many fights, where he presented a heated and stressed personality. Benvolio has already been involved in the same number of fights as Mercutio, who does not have this reputation as a pacifist and calm.

When Mercutio is accusing Benvolio of making trouble wherever he goes, he is playing Benvolio's hypocrisy on everyone, showing how Benvolio claims to be something he is not, just to keep up appearances.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)